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Labor Secretary Perez: How to Fix Inequality in America

Posted On: Nov 21, 2014

Nov. 21, 2014 | THE MIDDLE CLASS | U.S. Secretary Tom Perez often talks about helping low-wage workers “punch their ticket to the middle class.” One of the Obama administration’s staunchest progressives, he was appointed to this post last year after serving for four years as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division. Perez recently sat down with NBC News to discuss poverty, low-wage work, and the thorny problem of inequality. Read the interview here.